May 2012 Archive

Obama Supports States Rights Over Same-Sex Marriage

Danny Schechter un-spins select stories from the day’s New York Times for his NYTX News Dissector video column. In today’s report Danny discusses Obama’s “endorsement” of ...

The Essential Mitt Romney

By Marie Burns: Andrew Rosenthal, who edits the New York Times editorial pages, got at the essential Mitt Romney yesterday afternoon when he wrote, These days, [Romney] doesn’t want to bully ...

Opinion: Assassinations are a big hit again – Matthew Stevenson – POLITICO.com

By Matthew Stevenson: As a useful instrument of statecraft, assassination is somewhere between impressment (dragging sailors off neutral ships) and piracy (the poor man’s defense ...

Is This the Most Boring Election Ever?

By Matt Taibbi: I was channel-surfing the other day, looking for something genuinely interesting on television, like maybe a repeat of the Big Ten Network’s Diamond ...

Subject: Two Reporters + Four Contributors = 400 Words Trivializing Huge Global Event

Re: “At May Day Demonstrations, Traffic Jams and Arrests” by Andy Newman Colin Moynihan (news article, May 1). It took two reporters plus four contributors to ...

Help Wanted: Strong Leadership on Climate Change, Starting Immediately

By Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: Now if only President Obama could show the same leadership on climate change as he has just demonstrated on the divisive same- ...

Grasping at Chinese straws

By Jeff Faux: The Commerce Department released another depressing report on the U.S. trade deficit this morning, our monthly reminder of the huge gap between globalization’s economic reality ...

Joe Biden Is a Better Skier Than His Boss

By Scarecrow: The President of the United States did a good thing when he told Americans he supported same-sex marriage.  It was overdue but the right ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse – NYTimes.com

By Sharon Otterman and Ray Rivera: The first shock came when Mordechai Jungreis learned that his mentally disabled teenage son was being molested in a Jewish ...

Game Over for the Climate – NYTimes.com

By James Hanson: GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President ...

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